‘Animated Thinking’ – A Room in Mumbai is released on BBC iPlayer BBC iPlayer has released ‘A Room in Mumbai’, an animated film based on Dr Anika Haque’s research … Read more
Category: Research
Dr Jonathan Rock Rokem awarded funding to research migrant mobility and access to public urban resources
Lecturer in Human Geography, Dr Jonathan Rock Rokem, has been awarded funding as Project Investigator to lead the JPI Urban Europe Urban Migration research project, … Read more
Rediscovery of fossils from one of the UK’s most important archaeological sites
Biological anthropologists from the School of Anthropology and Conservation (SAC) have rediscovered fossils from Barnfield Pit in Swanscombe, Kent that have lain dormant for 70 years. … Read more
Neanderthal thumbs better adapted to holding tools with handles
Neanderthal thumbs were better adapted to holding tools in the same way that we hold a hammer, according to research undertaken at the Skeletal Biology … Read more
Geography and Environment Autumn Term Seminar Series 2020
The Human Geography and Environmental Social Science Seminar Series at the University of Kent is launching its first series with two inaugural talks in the … Read more
PhD students in Social Anthropology present at Qualitative Health Research Network workshop on public trust in healthcare
Keira Pratt-Boyden and Laura Burke, fourth-year PhD candidates in Social Anthropology, were recently invited to participate in ‘Truth, Trust and Research in Health and Social … Read more
Media impact of Dr Alessia Nava’s research on Neanderthal milk teeth
Research led by Dr Alessia Nava, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow, has been covered by many media outlets around the world. The study, which was … Read more
DICE research shows palm oil certification brings mixed outcomes to neighbouring communities
Research led by the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) has found that Indonesian communities living near oil palm plantations are impacted in different … Read more
Applications open for three new PhD Scholarships at DICE in 2021
The School of Anthropology and Conservation is proud to be part of the Advanced Research and Innovation in the Environmental Sciences (ARIES) Doctoral Training Partnership … Read more
Event – Book launch of Dr Zerrin Özlem Biner’s States of Dispossession
On 16th November, 2020, the Centre for Ethnographic Research will be celebrating Dr Zerrin Özlem Biner’s new ethnographic monograph States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious … Read more